Skin ageing

Menopause International

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 60-64

  Calleja Agius, J ^a   Muscat Baron, Y ^a   Brincat, M P ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Malta)

Author keywords

COLLAGEN; ESTROGEN; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; MENOPAUSE; SKIN AGEING

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; ESTROGEN; WATER;

CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DRUG EFFECT; ESTHETICS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOUND HEALING; AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMIS; DRY SKIN; ELASTICITY; EPIDERMIS; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FACE; HAIR LOSS; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LACERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FRAGILITY; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN TURGOR; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WATER CONTENT; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WRINKLE;

COLLAGEN; ESTHETICS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; SKIN; SKIN AGING; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 36048994059     PISSN: 17540453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/175404507780796325     Document Type: Review

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